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🇬🇧 Oliver Gavin
Racing driver from United Kingdom. WEC, Corvette Racing. One-time champion.
Driver facts
Full name
Oliver Gavin
Born
29 September 1972(b. 1972)
Nationality
United Kingdom
Current team
Corvette Racing
Series
WEC
Status
Retired
Championships
12016
Career wins
5
Career podiums
15
Career starts
98
Career DNFs
8
Racer Rating
4,878
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Racer Rating
4,878Rank 1322 of 40,308 indexed, +0 this season
FIA Categorisation
Platinum
FIA driver categorisation
Source: fia.com
Source: fia.com
Synthesized from 1 source, updated 0h ago
Oliver Gavin is a racing driver from United Kingdom who last raced in WEC for Corvette Racing. Gavin is a one-time champion (2016), with 5 wins and 15 podiums from 98 starts.[1]
A Racer Rating of 4,878 ranks Gavin 1322th of 40,308 indexed drivers, on an Elo scale where the strongest reach the high 8,000s. It is built from every indexed race in the driver's file, decayed for time since their last race.
Sources: [1] Indexed race classifications
2021 form
Last 20 races, finish position (higher is better)
Recent results
Tap a row for the full race
| 2021-05-01 | Spa-Francorchamps LMGTE Pro | P4 | −28 |
| 2021-01-30 | Daytona International Speedway GTD | P16 | −115 |
Career-best drives
Ranked by rating won, which prices the opposition
| Rating won | Race | Series | Finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| +208 | Sebring International Raceway 2020 | IMSA WeatherTech | P1 |
| +159 | Long Beach Street Circuit 2017 | IMSA WeatherTech | P1 |
| +156 | Lime Rock Park 2016 | IMSA WeatherTech | P1 |
| +149 | LE MANS 2015 | WEC | P1 |
| +144 | Road America 2016 | IMSA WeatherTech | P1 |
Circuits
Rating per start against their own form that season
Raises their game
Road Atlanta5 starts+44
Road America7 starts+32
Lime Rock Park4 starts+11
Spa-Francorchamps4 starts+6
Struggles
Daytona International Speedway4 starts-25
Virginia International Raceway7 starts-25
Circuit of the Americas5 starts-17
Sebring International Raceway4 starts-16
Season by season
| Season | Series | Team | Races | Wins | Podiums | DNFs | Poles | Points | Pos | Gain/Loss | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | ▸IMSA WeatherTech | Vasser Sullivan | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P34 | −115 | 4,878 |
| ▸WEC | Corvette Racing | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P10 | −28 | ||
| 2020 | ▸IMSA WeatherTech | Corvette Racing | 11 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P4 | +113 | 4,878 |
| 2019 | ▸IMSA WeatherTech | Corvette Racing | 11 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P9 | −352 | 5,109 |
| ▸WEC | Corvette Racing | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | P21 | −103 | ||
| 2018 | ▸IMSA WeatherTech | Corvette Racing | 8 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P6 | +282 | 4,802 |
| ▸WEC | Corvette Racing | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | P18 | −131 | ||
| 2017 | ▸IMSA WeatherTech | Corvette Racing | 11 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P8 | −457 | 5,140 |
| ▸WEC | Corvette Racing - GM | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P19 | −24 | ||
| 2016 | ▸IMSA WeatherTech | Corvette Racing | 7 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P1 | +407 | 5,226 |
| ▸WEC | Corvette Racing - GM | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | P16 | −47 | ||
| 2015 | ▸IMSA WeatherTech | Corvette Racing | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P22 | −298 | 5,286 |
| ▸WEC | Corvette Racing - GM | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P13 | +149 | ||
| 2014 | ▸IMSA WeatherTech | Corvette Racing | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P35 | +41 | 5,388 |
| ▸WEC | Corvette Racing | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P16 | +25 | ||
| 2013 | ▸WEC | Aston Martin Racing | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P16 | −119 | 5,415 |
| 2012 | ▸WEC | Corvette Racing | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | P13 | −63 | 5,534 |
| 2009 | ▸FIA GT Championship | Selleslagh Racing Team | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P29 | −33 | 5,596 |
| 2007 | ▸FIA GT Championship | Luc Alphand Aventures | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P23 | +45 | 5,629 |
| 2004 | ▸FIA GT Championship | Reiter Engineering | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P25 | +62 | 5,585 |
| 2002 | ▸FIA GT Championship | Reiter Engineering | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | P36 | −178 | 5,523 |
| 2001 | ▸FIA GT Championship | Reiter Engineering | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P27 | +45 | 5,701 |
| 1999 | ▸International Formula 3000 | Edenbridge Racing | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P15 | +270 | 5,656 |
| 1994 | ▸International Formula 3000 | Nordic Racing | 4 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | P21 | ↑900−435 | 5,386 |
| 1993 | ▸Formula 3 Macau | Edenbridge Racing | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | +3,571 | 4,921 |
Recent coverage
No recent coverage found.
Head-to-head
Most-raced and strongest-beaten: times Gavin finished ahead vs behind
| Rival | Rating | Raced | Ahead | Behind | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🇪🇸 Antonio GarciaFIA Platinum | 5,372 | 79 | 16 | 63 | 20% |
| 🇩🇰 Jan MagnussenFIA Platinum | 4,817 | 65 | 13 | 52 | 20% |
| 🇫🇷 Richard WestbrookFIA Platinum | 5,016 | 62 | 19 | 43 | 31% |
| 🇺🇸 Patrick PiletFIA Platinum | 5,259 | 61 | 26 | 35 | 43% |
| 🇬🇧 Nick TandyFIA Platinum | 5,288 | 60 | 30 | 30 | 50% |
| 🇳🇿 Earl BamberFIA Platinum | 5,796 | 52 | 22 | 30 | 42% |
| 🇺🇸 Joey HandFIA Gold | 4,591 | 51 | 15 | 36 | 29% |
| 🇺🇸 John EdwardsFIA Gold | 4,276 | 48 | 29 | 19 | 60% |
| 🇦🇺 Ryan BriscoeFIA Platinum | 5,303 | 47 | 18 | 29 | 38% |
| 🇧🇪 Laurens VanthoorFIA Platinum | 6,302 | 43 | 16 | 27 | 37% |
| 🇵🇹 António Félix da CostaFIA Platinum, 2× champion | 6,428 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 67% |
| 🇳🇿 Scott DixonFIA Platinum, 5× champion | 6,159 | 18 | 4 | 14 | 22% |
| 🇧🇷 Bruno SennaFIA Platinum, 1× champion | 6,075 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 67% |
Raced wheel-to-wheel, not as team-mates
On the leaderboard
Global rank, 40,308 drivers indexed
| # | Driver | Series | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1,312 | 🇧🇪 Marc Goossens | 24H Series | 4,882 |
| 1,313 | 🇺🇸 Rajah Caruth | NASCAR Xfinity | 4,881 |
| 1,314 | 🇧🇷 Eduardo Barrichello | WEC | 4,880 |
| 1,315 | 🇺🇸 Sean Rayhall | Road to Le Mans | 4,880 |
| 1,316 | 🇬🇧 Benjamin Barker | IMSA WeatherTech | 4,879 |
| 1,317 | 🇺🇸 Bijoy Garg | European Le Mans Series | 4,879 |
| 1,318 | 🇬🇧 Matthew Howson | WEC | 4,879 |
| 1,319 | 🇬🇧 Dirk Muller | Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie | 4,878 |
| 1,320 | 🇧🇷 Dudu Barrichello | IMSA WeatherTech | 4,878 |
| 1,321 | 🇮🇹 Mirko Bortolotti | DTM | 4,878 |
| 1,322 | 🇬🇧 Oliver Gavin | WEC | 4,878 |
| 1,323 | 🇺🇸 Conrad Grunewald | GT World Challenge Europe | 4,877 |
| 1,324 | 🇺🇸 Landon Cassill | NASCAR Xfinity | 4,877 |
| 1,325 | 🇺🇸 William Langhorne | Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie | 4,877 |
| 1,326 | 🇫🇷 Jérôme Policand | Road to Le Mans | 4,876 |
| 1,327 | 🇦🇺 Blake McDonald | Asian Le Mans Series | 4,874 |
| 1,328 | 🇮🇹 Giovanni Bonanno | International Formula 3000 | 4,874 |
| 1,329 | 🇯🇵 Tsugio Matsuda | Super GT | 4,874 |
| 1,330 | 🇫🇷 Ryo Fukuda | Formula V8 3.5 | 4,872 |
| 1,331 | 🇮🇹 Devlin DeFrancesco | IMSA WeatherTech | 4,871 |
| 1,332 | 🇪🇸 Adrián Vallés | Formula V8 3.5 | 4,869 |
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